Farm Hand

Education: No degree, certificate or diploma
- Experience: Experience an asset
**Work site environment**:

- Outdoors
**Tasks**:

- Clear and collect brush and debris from fields, pens and other work areas
- Monitoring animal health
- Perform livestock feeding
- Weaning
- Feed and tend animals
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens
- Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry
- Perform general farm duties
- Examine product for quality and its readiness for the market
**Equipment and machinery experience**:

- Feeding and watering system
- Tractor
- Farm truck
- Lift truck
- Loader
- Forklift
**Automated systems experience**:

- Bulk grain or feed handling - automated
- Automated environmental control equipment
- Manure handling and storage
**Work conditions and physical capabilities**:

- Ability to work independently
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Physically demanding
- Repetitive tasks
- Handling heavy loads
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Large workload
- Overtime required
- Sound discrimination
- Standing for extended periods
- Walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
**Weight handling**:

- Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)
**Personal suitability**:

- Organized
- Team player
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Judgement
- Reliability
- Quick learner
**Financial benefits**:

- Group insurance benefits
- Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 40 hours per week